Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.
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We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.Walter Gilbert
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
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Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
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We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
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